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Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller
Former Cap Rod Langway said on local DC radio yesterday that he'd heard that the Caps and Ovechkin had agreed to a 9-year deal, can't be announced until after next week when he's officially in the last year of his deal though.
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Herc, maybe you can clear this up for me, but it is my understanding that under the new CBA, a player cannot take a percentage of the cap in lieu of a fixed number...so they cannot take advantage of the cap continuing to rise. If that is the case, why would anyone sign a long term deal, if he signed for the max, which is just under 10 million, over 9 years, in two or three years, as the cap keeps rising, he would start to really get hosed. So why would anyone sign a long term deal under this system?